Either I am dealing with some form of memory loss, or I am dealing with a guy from an alternate timeline.

January 16, 2012

Either I am dealing with some form of memory loss, or I am dealing with a guy from an alternate timeline.

I started college this week and one of my classes is World Religion. On my first day of class, a guy walks in about 15 minutes late and sits next to me. During break he looks at me, smiles wide, and says “It’s been a long time, how are you?” I have zero re-collection of who he is. He doesn’t look or sound familiar; and I tend to not forget people even if they only played a very small role in my life.

I asked him who he was and how he knew me. He told me his full name (still not ringing any bells) and said he knew me from a private school called “homeland village” (or something like that.) He said that I was there to take a class on photo shop. He also mentioned the names of some of the other students. And he wrapped up his story with how we were at a Halloween party together once.

I have 1.) NEVER attended private school, or have even heard the name of the one he mentioned 2.) NEVER taken a photo shop class and 3.) Have never been to a Halloween party that had more than 6 good close friends. I was convinced that he had me confused for someone else. But here’s the kicker: He knows me by a name that I no longer go by, and described me with a very “out there” hair style that I haven’t had in years.

What. The Actual. Fuck.

TL;DR: A kid accidently left his timeline, entered mine, and wants to be friends because he knew an alternate version of me.

There's a possibility all of these stories are the result of drugs, mental illness, physical illness, stress, sleep paralysis, dreams, or natural phenomena misidentified. That all of these stories are the result of the story teller lying or exaggerating.
But out of all the hundreds of stories here there is also the very real possibility that perhaps one is the absolute truth, that one has no other possible explanation other than the supernatural.
The question is, which story is it and what would that suggest about the universe.